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Million w*r* awarded Tuesday by
Um Texas AAM Uaiveraity Sys
tem Beard of Directors for con
struction projects throughout the
state, iDeluding new agricultural
research and extension centers at
Uvalde and ChilUcothe-Vsmon.
The board also announced three
key appeintaMnta at Prairie View
AAM College and naamd a dean
far Texas AAM University’s new
College of Marine Sciences and
Maritime Bsaourcea at Galveston.
Dr. Ivory V. Nelson, Prairie
View’s assistant dean of the col
lege sinep 1941, eras promoted to
vice president for research and
special projects.
Dr. G. R. Ragland was named
acting dean at Prairie View. He is
currently head of institutional re
search. director of records and re-
Some major
ports and head of the Sociology
Deportment.
A. E. Cronus was named dona
of engineering at Prairie View.
He is currently associate dean
Dr. William H. Clayton was ap
pointed dean of Texas A A M’s
College of Marine Sciences and
Maritime Resources. He is cur
rently aaoociate dean for research
in the university’s College of Geo
sciences and professor of ocean
ography and meteorology.
. Page and Wirts Construction
Co. of Amarillo won a $418,766
contract to build the new agricul
tural research and extension can
ter between Chillicothe and Ver
non. In conjunction with the
award, the boa^d formally accept
ed grants totaling $150,000 to help
finance the project. The Vernon
Chamber of Commerce contribut
ed $100,000 and the W. T. Wag
goner Estate and the E. Paul and
Helen Bock Waggoner Founda
tion, Inc., $$5,000 each.
B-F-W Construction Co. of
Temple received a $412,000 con
tract to build the Uvalde center.
Other contracts included
$1,975300 to Temple Associates,
Inc., of Diboll for expansion of
utilities; $589,785.50, Young
Brothers, Inc., Contractors of Wa
co, renovation of Easterwood Air
port; $266,100, Sentry Construc
tion Co., Bryan, construction of
Forestry Field Laboratory; and
$99,978.51, Tonn Construction Co.
of GHidings, construction of storm
drainage, all at Texas AAM.
A $148306 contract was award
ed to Waco Construction, Inc.,
Waco, to convert the attic of
Tarieton State College's student
center into a usable second floor.
The board authorised appropria
tions totaling $177325 for three
other projects: $60,125 for con
struction of a poultry disease lab
oratory 4 at Gonsales; $87,000 for
detailed design of additional mar
ried student housing at Texas
AAM and $30300 fpr the Texas
Maritime Academy to move into
new office and classroom facilities
at Taxes AAM’s Mitchell Campus
on Galveston’s Pelican Island.
In other action, the board ap
proved president emeritus dssig-
netion for Dr. M. T. Harrington,
who served as president of Texas
AAM from 1960 until 1953 and
was chancellor of the system from
1968 until 1966. The emeritus des
ignation is affective Oct. 1, the
day after Dr. Harrington retires
as coordinator for the universi
ty’s international programs.
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made in ‘blue-book’
By BILL GOULD
Aggies who take tie time to
examine their new copica of the
University Regulations will find
that some changes hs y e been
made.
What the changes are and how *
they will effect the individual
student at AAM were explained
by R. A. Lacey, registrar and
chairman of the Rules and Regu
lations Committee.
The committee’s primary goal
was to clarify the regulations
and M do a little house-cleaning,”
according to Lacsp.^
Other members of the commit
tee were John B. Beckham, Asso
ciate Dana, Collage of Science;
J. G. McGuire, Assistant Dean,
College of Enginoering; Dr. R. C.
Potts, Associate Dean, College of
Agriculture; Dr. C. E. McCand-
less, Associate Dean, College of
Liberal Arte; Don Stafford. Stu
dent Affairs;. Msylon Souther-
Isad, Civilian Corps Advisor; and
Kent C sport on, past presWent vf
the Student Senate.
Regulations changed include
those dealing with studies, stu
dent absences, class Visitors, and
the reporting and posting of
grades, Lacey said.
Major revisions, however, are
those pertaining to the Basic
Policy itself and to the regula
tions which interpret the bask
polky.
In defining terms, the regula
tions no longer include former
students or “the worthy tradi
tions of the institution’’ when
speaking of Die University.
For the first time since the
bask policy statement was adopt
ed by the Board of Directors in
1945, the regulations recognise
the student’s Constitutional
rights.
The regulations also guarantee
the student’s right of freedom of
control by any persons “except
as may be in accord with pub
lished rules and regulations of
the University."
Of particular interest are the
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revised polkiee regarding on-
campus speakers, lecturers and
entertainment.
In the previous edition of the
regulations, the section was one
paragraph long and contained
about 160 words. The changes in
the new edition add six sub-para
graphs and increase the section’s
length to some 400 words.
..According to the regulation,
“The President or his duly au
thorised representative may or
der a speaking event to be termi
nated on the grounds that it con
stitutes a disorderly activity .. .*
Also retained in the regulations
are the broad controls concerning
student life both on and off the
campus, in that “the University
accepts responsibility for the ex
tra-curricular life of the indi
vidual student . .
Lacey, in summarising the ac
complishments of the committee,
said, “We triad to treat the stu
dent as a responsible adult, giv
ing all the freedoms allowed him
anywhere.
“We think that Aggies will
benefit from the changes," ha
A&M-Wichita
game tickets
now available
Student and data tickets for
the A4M-#khita State football
game cam be pkked up this week
at the ticket booths in G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
Athletic Business Manager
Wally Groff has announced the
following distribution schedule:
Wednesday—Graduate students
and seniors.
Thursday—Juniors.
Friday—Sophomores.
Monday—Freshmen.
Tuesday—All rises as.
Groff added that students
should got their tickets on days
■—tgnad for thoir spodfk class-
44. They can get tickets any day
after their designated day.
The above schedule will con
tinue each weak, starting oa Wed-
game ticket free by showing both
their ID and activity cards. They
pay half-price fbr tickets to out-
ef-town games. All data tickets
are fan price. The L8U game
tickets are $7 each. AH ether
tkketa an $6.
^ Tkksi hastlte win ha open cen-
Hanenaiy fbsm 7 aun. to S pjn.
ana gams tick-
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Hauling junk and climbing steps is all part of coming back to AAM
of Wh.t the first few day. ere like, see pages 2. 7. and 8 (Phot« t? Joe
A&M begins 95th year;
14,000 are
Classroom doors opened Mon
day for the 96th year at AAM.
Um 1971-72 school year will be
Dr. Jack K. Williams' first full
year as Texas AAM system pres
ident. Increased enrollment and
continuing construction also
highlight the new year for Tex
as’ oldest public institution of
higher learning.
Mora than 14,000 enrollment is
expected by the time final tabu
lations are mads next weak to
include late registering students,
according to Registrar Robert A.
Enrollment in the university
ooureaa will continue through
Friday. a ** t 4rt>te may add now
posts— through Friday and drop
roureas without penalty through
Sept 14, Lacey noted.
AAM first began classes in
October, 1876, with 40 students
and seven faculty members. The
faculty today numbers more than
1,100.
New classrooms will go into
use during the year, as depart
ments move into the nesrly^om-
pie ted $9.9 million Engineering
Center. Construction totalling
$63 million includes the ocean
ography-meteorology and office-
classroom high-rises, 1,000 stu
dent dorms, auditorium - confer
ence center including a continu
ing education tower. Memorial
Student Center expansion, educa
tional television building and
chemistry expansion, in addition
to related utilities and services
expansion and Sbisa Hail reno
vation.
>n design and possibly to begin
construction during 1971-72 is a
$23 million health center. Also
•n the desigp »Ur* is a new ath
letic dona and classroom buildinr
WM Proi-
dent last SapUmbw, took office
m November and was formally
inaugurated in April, 1971. The
former Coordinating Board com-
misstoner and University 0 f Ten-
‘ Cadernl •' Tlc • Pcusident
succeeded Acting President Gen
A. R Luedocke who took over
Fnll semester exam, and com
mencement, as in iro, will pra-
^ * **»« Christmas holidays.
Comm—rsmsot is scheduled Dec
pleted Dec. 21.
Continuous dining schedule
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announced for dining halls
A continuous dining schedule
by which hoard-paying students
will ha vs mors time to oat meals
has been agnouneod by the Food
Service Department.
The Food Service Department
director said hoard stodanU may
taka the first two meals of a
das* day at Sbisa Hall any time
batweea 7 a.m. and 2:80 pja*
E^tedag aisaii will ha sarved be
tween 4:30 amd 6:80 pja.
Tha innovation will keep dIn-
Jim
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.r. mcv— hit body and mouth through a fable at All-Uni-
Mbs da net wish
al four hours par class
«B ha “aanaid-
day.
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tfabato arraHahla
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atud—ta have mi—ad too
ter m A They
many ■
Mala in tha past due to
i ag an the ate-
dnaa co
®Okts and other ran-
ule is for the student's health and
well-being. It should allow him
to oat meals ha might otherwise
miss, dins mors leisurely and en-
jpy mealtime mom."
Dollar said continuous dining
will affect 1 all board-paying stu
dents—civilian and tyrpa though
tha schedule will apply only to
Sbisa service. A cadet forced to
miss a Duncan meal can gat it at
Sbisa by showing his ID card.
Breakfast will be served week
days in the main Sbisa hall from
7 to 8 a.m. A continental Una
proaidteg pastries, jeices and
“On the sbte gf
b ™Mfaa will be open la th
Sbisa annex from 7 a.m. to 1«:8(
h**® #l 10 *° ^
Sbisa main and extend to 2*8i
P-»- Supper houm era from 4:8
to 6:80 pm.
Bemer promoted
to MoocUte dean
Dp- Uo Berner Jr. has bee
P*o«*oted to associate dean <
AAM’s Graduate Collie.
> also is an
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